New restaurant: Sweet Paris Creperie

We’ve always liked crepes but they can go either way. Some of them have delicious fillings but the crepes are bad and some are light and delicious but the innards leave us wanting. Sweet Paris Creperie in McKinney was a combination of both. We tried two menu items. For a savory crepe we had the Turkey, Brie and Grapes. The filling of this crepe was actually delicious, and it came with a small salad. But, the crepe itself was tasteless and looked more like a thin wrap than a crepe. Then we tried the lovely looking ‘Smores crepe.

We had high hopes for this one but not only was the crepe tasteless but it was so full of chocolate inside that we could hardly talk and it was overly sweet. All in all we were rather disappointed.

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We’ve really grown to love short films. Of course, we come across the ones that don’t do anything for us but each month we also find some that hit the mark. “S” month was no exception.

Short Film: SEEING HIM

This film was described online this way: “In the wake of an ultimatum a middle-aged woman is forced to confront personal boundaries and a disturbing truth about her relationship with her younger lover.”  Almost all that is true. The love affair was, indeed, that of a much older woman and a younger man. It started with her in bed saying, “You left me.” The movie played out in an interesting and surprising way, and we do love when a film makes us discuss it afterwards. The only thing we did not quite see is why the website spoke of the wake of an ultimatum.

Short Film: SKIN

This film opens in a small supermarket in a blue-collar town. A black man shares a smile with a 10-year-old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash. We can’t say much more about it without giving it all away but it’s one of those movies that end and have you saying, “OH MY G_D!” That feeling stayed with us for quite a while. This film won the Oscar for Best Short Film – Live Action and it was certainly warranted.